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Course code: BHS20073o11Semester: 2011/2012 summer
Name: PHYSIOLOGY OF DIGESTION AND ABSORPTION
Major: Animal Science
Study Type: second cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 1
ECTS points: 4
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: Prof. dr hab. Bogusław Fuchs
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: Student understand the physiological basis of gastrointestinal tract functionality in animals conditioning well feed utilization and decisive about the proper balancing of commercial mixtures and premixes.
Competences: Student is ready to work in specialized laboratories, to programming of mixtures and prenmixes composition, can be a teacher or animal feeding adviser.
Prerequisites: Anatomy, physiology and biochemistry of animals
Course content: Differences in construction and functions of gastrointestinal tract in monogastric animals and in ruminants, feed intake regulatory mechanisms, digestion, enzymes secretion, absorption, morphology of gut walls and structural components of feeds; nutrients availability; metabolic disturbances; relation between feeds composition and nutritive and pro-health value of meat, milk and eggs.
Recommended literature: Loeffler K.: Anatomy and physiology of domestic animals. PZWL, Warszawa,2002 Schmidt K., Nielsen K.: Animal Physiology. Adaptation to the environment, PWN, Warszawa,1992 Szostak B.: The fundamentals of anatomy and physiology of animals. Wyd. AR Lublin,2001
Assessment methods: Obligatory completion of practical training Written or oral exam Min 70 % of knowledge to pass
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